NSEERS targeted men from Muslim-majority nations for fingerprinting and registration.

Evidence

Another program initiated in 2002, the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), which had its origins in the 1996 AEDPA terrorism bill and was amended by the USA PATRIOT Act, required male immigrants sixteen and older from twenty-five countries to report to INS offices in order to be “fingerprinted, photographed, interviewed, and have their financial information copied, or to register when they enter the country, then re-register after thirty days,” as legal scholar Nancy Murray writes. (The countries were named this time, and included Muslimmajority and Middle Eastern countries as well as North Korea.) By fall 2003, more than eighty-three thousand immigrant residents had registered under the program. As their reward for coming forward, 13,799 found themselves facing deportation proceedings. As for whether “terrorists” were apprehended by this program, eleven people were found to have “links” to terrorism. The program yielded not a single terrorism conviction. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 447 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: NSEERS registry targeted nearly all Muslim-majority nations and detained thousands — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 286; NSEERS targeted men from Muslim-majority nations regardless of actual terror risk; Surveillance derives from country-of-origin priority lists that racialize Muslim identity (+4 more)

Related

• NSEERS targeted 83,000 immigrants yet produced zero terrorism convictions (similarity 0.91)
• NSEERS registry targeted nearly all Muslim-majority nations and detained thousands (similarity 0.90)
• NSEERS registered eighty-three thousand immigrants but produced zero terrorism convictions (similarity 0.89)
• NSEERS registration required men from twenty-five countries including North Korea (similarity 0.88)
• Over 80,000 Muslims registered under NSEERS with 13,000 deported on non-terrorism violations. (similarity 0.87)
• The NSEERS profiling program produced zero terrorism convictions in its decade of operation. (similarity 0.87)
• NSEERS targeted men from Muslim-majority nations while ignoring Western countries with known terrorists (similarity 0.85)
• Tens of thousands of US Muslims faced registry, arbitrary arrest, detention or deportation (similarity 0.84)
• NSEERS targeted men from Muslim-majority nations regardless of actual terror risk (similarity 0.83)
• Surveillance registration programs racialize Arabs and Muslims by codifying essentialized categories (similarity 0.82)
• National security programs targeted undocumented immigrants on group religious identity, not individualized suspicion. (similarity 0.81)
• Surveillance derives from country-of-origin priority lists that racialize Muslim identity (similarity 0.79)
• The NSI institutionalizes citizen participation in racialized surveillance of Muslims (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• NSEERS targeted men from Muslim-majority nations regardless of actual terror risk #expands (0.85)
• Surveillance derives from country-of-origin priority lists that racialize Muslim identity #expands (0.70)
• NSEERS registered eighty-three thousand immigrants but produced zero terrorism convictions #expands (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 447
• Muslim religious identity becomes a racial category through surveillance. #expands (0.60)
• The state authorizes citizens to racially profile Muslims under national security #corroborates (0.50) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 424
• Religious identity can be racialized when signifiers trigger profiling #corroborates (0.50)